Three trips to the NCAA Tournament in the past four years makes this the Akron Zips men's basketball team's most successful ...

Now give me two claps and a Rick Flair. Wooooo!" Other Akron players who overhead Wilson rattling off those words in the Zips locker room also chimed in with, "Wooooo!" Akron coach John Groce has ...

The Akron Zips have had fun en route to March Madness, and the team's personality is perfectly illustrated by Seth Wilson's Ric Flair-inspired ritual.

A famous speech by professional wrestling legend Ric Flair has become a rallying cry for the Akron men's basketball team, and senior guard Seth Wilson is bringing it to March Madness. The Zips ...

Akron Zips guard Tavari Johnson (5) looks to the basket ahead of Toledo Rockets guard Sonny Wilson (3) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the semifinals of the Mid ...

A contingent of Akron’s players have March Madness experience under their belts, and Wilson thinks the Zips are prepared for the moment. “When you go the first time, you don’t really ...

SEATTLE — Fighting back tears became difficult for several members of the Akron ... Wilson, a former St. Vincent-St. Mary High School player, said after he scored six points on 2-of-7 shooting from ...

Three Akron senior guards — Isaiah Gray, Seth Wilson and Evan Wilson — played for the final time in college. Gray, Seth Wilson, the Johnsons and Okonkwo were starters for the Zips during a historic ...

Go Zips!" Akron set the single-season program record for wins in 2024-25, when the Zips finished 28-7. They also went 17-1 in the MAC, tying Kent State's 2001-02 team for the best single-season ...

Akron Zips men's basketball coach John Groce guided his team to the program's seventh NCAA Tournament berth in history in 2025 with a second consecutive Mid-American Conference Tournament ...

He originally played two seasons with West Virginia before transferring to North Carolina and then Akron. He started 28 of 35 games for the Zips ... Bernie Wilson recently retired from The ...

University of Akron men's basketball coach John Groce loves to talk about his current team and reminisce about past Zips teams ... guards Isaiah Gray, Seth Wilson and Shammah Scott each has ...